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Research on Knowledge Worker Incentive Factors

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In order to incentive Knowledge worker effectively, based on the total compensation model which was first proposed by WAW (World at Work), from the five dimensions of incentive, use factor analysis and correlation analysis, the research analyze the knowledge worker incentive factors and the incentive effects. The results show that the total compensation model can better adapts to China’s situation, basically covers the important knowledge worker motivation factors, but the sort of factors is a little different.

An Analysis Based on Total Compensation Model

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Wang, X., Zhang, ZS. (2013). Research on Knowledge Worker Incentive Factors. In: Qi, E., Shen, J., Dou, R. (eds) The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38442-4_44

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